<p>PC Amanda Phipps and her colleague PC Mark Robinson pulled over mum Mariam Traore, 32, when they believed she may have been drink-driving last August.</p>

<p>But it turned Mariam and her boyfriend were desperately trying to get to hospital&nbsp;as their two-week-old daughter Zara<span style="line-height: 20.8px;">&nbsp;had stopped breathing.</span></p>

<p><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Miss Traore told the <a href="http://www.crawleynews.co.uk/grateful-mum-praises-police-officer-who-saved-her-newborn-baby-when-she-stopped-breathing/story-29459293-detail/story.html">Cawley News</a>: &quot;I had given Zara milk and my boyfriend was then holding her when he suddenly screamed my name and shouted that she couldn&#39;t breathe.</span></p>

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<p><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">&quot;I&#39;d never heard him like that before. He sounded so scared. It was really bad, she was totally silent and her eyes went white. I was terrified.&quot;</span></p>
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<p><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">The couple were so panicked that Miss Traore said they decided to drive straight to Crawley Hospital themselves rather than wait for an ambulance.</span></p>

<p><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">&quot;I was sat in the passenger seat holding Zara feeling very very panicky, it was a bad experience,&quot; she added.</span></p>

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<p><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">&quot;Zara wasn&#39;t breathing and she wasn&#39;t moving. I was crying, shouting and screaming in the car. We wanted to get to the hospital so badly that we didn&#39;t stop at the first set of traffic lights and we went through the second traffic lights as well.</span></p>

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<p><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">&quot;As we got to a third set of traffic lights it was then we heard the police sirens and knew we had to stop.&quot;</span></p>
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<p><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">&ldquo;She was not breathing and I just thought I had to get some air in, so I did some rescue breathing,</span><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">&rdquo; PC Phipps told the&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/police-officer-saves-babys-life-8341980" style="line-height: 20.8px;">Mirror</a><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">.</span></p>

<p><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">PC Robinson then drove&nbsp;to hospital while&nbsp;PC Phipps carried on saving Zara&rsquo;s life.</span></p>

<p><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">She added: &ldquo;After about the third breath the baby then made a movement and a little noise. I just looked at the mum and said, &lsquo;that&rsquo;s a good thing&rsquo; - I think I said it more for myself.</span></p>

<p><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Zara is&nbsp;now 10 months old and&nbsp;fully recovered after spending three days in hospital while&nbsp;PC Amanda Phipps was&nbsp;honoured last week at the West Sussex Divisional Awards 2016.</span></p>
